How to capture the blue-green of the Pacific from Silver Strand Beach - how many blues and greens would qualify to be among the pigments an artist would choose? It’s duck green for the head stripe of the teal, the American green-winged teal, and the Eurasian one too, and the wing embellishment of the blue-winged teal? During migration on the Mississippi Flyway you’ll spot a group of blue-winged or green-winged teal flying in small, tight formations, turning and landing together with the precision of the Blue Angels. When is the sea green and when is it blue - of course we are seeing light reflected, but surely we can believe a mixture of 50-50 green and blue or 60-40 with our eyes. Choosing the day in June when this tiny painting was made gave me the name, for these amazing little birds, for the iridescence of the wet seashells, and how delightful to know the 2026 Color of the year is predicted to be “Transformative Teal”. What a happy solution for the nature lover who can’t choose between blue and green. I named this tiny painting of the ungroomed Coronado Island Beach for it’s soul-soothing color, The Duck Green Sea.
How to capture the blue-green of the Pacific from Silver Strand Beach - how many blues and greens would qualify to be among the pigments an artist would choose? It’s duck green for the head stripe of the teal, the American green-winged teal, and the Eurasian one too, and the wing embellishment of the blue-winged teal? During migration on the Mississippi Flyway you’ll spot a group of blue-winged or green-winged teal flying in small, tight formations, turning and landing together with the precision of the Blue Angels. When is the sea green and when is it blue - of course we are seeing light reflected, but surely we can believe a mixture of 50-50 green and blue or 60-40 with our eyes. Choosing the day in June when this tiny painting was made gave me the name, for these amazing little birds, for the iridescence of the wet seashells, and how delightful to know the 2026 Color of the year is predicted to be “Transformative Teal”. What a happy solution for the nature lover who can’t choose between blue and green. I named this tiny painting of the ungroomed Coronado Island Beach for it’s soul-soothing color, The Duck Green Sea.
#245 - Acrylic on Canvas Board
Painting: 2 1/2" x 2"
In Frame: 3 7/8" x 3 1/8"
